Example sentences of "[noun prp] and [adv] [vb base] [art] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Honduran military officials are worried that the road would allow their country to become a base for raiding parties into Nicaragua and further destabilise the troubled region . |
| 2 | ‘ You ca n't be in Sardinia and not try a prickly pear . ’ |
| 3 | Thus a Briton can drive through the Betic Cordillera in southern Spain and instantly recognise the gypsiferous , red and green marls of the Keuper . |
| 4 | The best return route is to descend steeply to Red Tarn below Crinkle Crags and then follow the broken track beside Brown Gill into Oxendale , with the shapely Langdale Pikes dominating the skyline ahead . |
| 5 | Prayer-rug designs are traditionally associated with Anatolia and still constitute the underlying format of most Anatolian rugs . |
| 6 | Read Mississippi Madness and Paddle to the Amazon and then read The Big Muddy and you will have three entirely different perspectives of the mighty Mississippi . |
| 7 | The canal 's purpose was to link the Stroudwater Navigation with the Thames and thus provide an inland waterway from the Black Country to London via the Severn , but it was never a commercial success and was finally abandoned in the early years of the present century . |
| 8 | Alternatively , the Soviets might select the site at Brawdy as a target for a sudden nuclear strike in order to demonstrate that they were able to protect their submarines in the Atlantic and so maintain the nuclear threat which the presence of such posed to the United States . |
| 9 | Once in control of Denmark ( possibly from 1019 , see below ) , he became concerned , like Swegen , Harald Bluetooth and probably Gorm the Old before him , with Norway , Sweden , the German empire and the Slav peoples east of the Elbe , including the Poles . |
| 10 | By taking the little branch line which had been built in the park of the palace of Saint Cloud , the imperial train could go around Paris and then rejoin the main line to the eastern frontier , where the army was assembling at Metz . |
| 11 | two people book a small mobile home on any high season depart from Saturday the tenth of July oh that 's after you , oh wait a minute , until twenty third of August and only pay the low season charge , save , save over thirty pound per |
| 12 | Emphasising that his anti-tax , anti-big government , America First campaign was for " the heart and soul of the Republican Party " , he stated that he could " lose 50 primaries to George Bush and still win the national debate " . |
| 13 | ‘ We will give him every chance until Wednesday and then leave the final decision to him . ’ |
| 14 | ‘ Now you leave Yugoslavia and still expect the Yugoslav Army to protect you . ’ |
| 15 | It seemed possible that American impulsiveness or ambition might ignite a powder train from the Far East to Europe and accidentally precipitate the Third World War . |
| 16 | But true to the political contours of Lebanon and what is now Israel , I had to fly to Greece , then to Tel Aviv and then take a four-hour car journey to see it , a round-trip of almost a thousand miles . |
| 17 | Set on the fringes of the Cambrian Mountain chain , the valley was flooded to satisfy the thirst of Victorian Birmingham and incidentally create a picturesque ‘ feature ’ , a series of artificial lakes connected by dramatic waterfalls . |
| 18 | Swanhilda strikes similar poses with her mantilla and fan in Coppélia and so do the Spanish dancers in Swan Lake . |
| 19 | Turn right and continue until you reach the buildings of Dykeheads and then take the rough track to the left . |
| 20 | President Truman and his advisers were anxious over Sino-Soviet relations and wondered whether American forces could take the port of Dairen and thus prevent the Soviet Union from occupying the Liaotung peninsula of south Manchuria . |
| 21 | Shearer 's penalty capped a remarkable and decisive seven-minute spell in which Southampton , leading thanks to a 13th minute Iain Dowie header , had seen their visitors come back into the game with a 62nd minute equaliser from Les Ferdinand and then miss a 67th minute penalty through Clive Wilson . |
| 22 | Erm , you have to go from Liverpool Street on the Circle Line to Moorgate and then get the Northern Line to Euston . |
| 23 | If we entirely remove the dynamics from the model , then it is possible to generate a soluble relation for Ct and hence construct a linear convergent strategy . |